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Cybersecurity for Dummies eBook

APTs (advanced persistent threats) have changed the world of enterprise security and how networks and organizations are attacked. These threats, and the cyber-criminals behind them, are experts at remaining hidden from traditional security while exhibiting an intelligence, resiliency, and patience that has never been...

Cybersecurity Imperatives: Reinvent your Network Security

Cybersecurity has become a leading topic both within and beyond the corporate boardroom. To stop the escalation of cyber attacks, enterprises need a network security approach that is designed from the outset to enable the safe use of the applications and technologies required to support a thriving business. This...

The State of Advanced Persistent Threats

Enterprises are unprepared to deal with APT attacks. According to a new Ponemon Institute study, APTs are changing the threat landscape, rendering current security controls ineffective. In Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs) and targeted attacks, attackers use a myriad of tools and techniques to breach into an...

Corporate Cybercrime Trends: Employee Endpoint Exploitation

Cybercriminals are leveraging vulnerabilities of the Internet, browsers, operating systems, and applications to secretly and proficiently gain access to corporate information assets. Compromising employee endpoints with malware has become the preferred method; a far simpler path into the corporate network than a...

Stepping up the Battle Against Advanced Threats

The primary approaches used to fight advanced threats over the past several years simply aren't effective. Traditional methods such as user education, vulnerability patching, and malware detection have failed to protect enterprises against the current threat landscape. Attackers continuously develop sophisticated...

Making a Business Case for Online Fraud Detection

Most organizations that enable users to perform Web transactions (e.g. banks and ecommerce sites) have implemented security controls to address online and mobile fraud. These controls fall into two buckets: transaction-focused intelligence, which looks for anomalous actions, and device-focused intelligence, which...

A Modern Framework for Network Security in Government

Governments around the world are undergoing change. Whether reducing data center footprints, virtualizing existing services to reduce costs and "go green", or advancing security strategies to thwart advanced attacks in the field or at home, governments are demanding more from their cybersecurity solutions today....

Connected Governments and Agile Militaries: Meeting the Security Requirements of Today's Evolving Governments

Governments around the world are undergoing change. Whether reducing their data center footprints, virtualizing existing services to reduce costs and "go green", or advancing security to thwart today's advanced attacks in the field or at home, governments have different requirements of their cybersecurity solutions...

Protecting Your Mid-Size Business from Today's Security Threats

Security breaches in large enterprises make the headlines, but 55 percent of small and mid-size businesses have also experienced a data breach. And 60 percent of small businesses fail within six months of falling victim to a cyber attack. This e-book examines the security challenges unique to mid-size...

The Importance of Reputation

A study by Verizon finds 86 percent of security breaches come from the outside. Spotting cyber attacks in your network means identifying the signature of known threats. Reputation data takes that one step farther by identifying communications coming from or going to known bad actors based on their...

Survey: Web Threats Expose Businesses to Data Loss

Webroot commissioned a study to gauge the prevalence of web-borne attacks, their consequences and how IT pros are responding. Among the results: the vast majority of companies surveyed experienced one or more types of web-borne attacks in 2012. The survey report also includes recommendations - such as deploying a...

Patch Management 101: How to Prevent High-Risk Security Breaches

Managing and administering software updates remains one of the most challenging, tedious and resource-intensive tasks an IT Department undertakes on a daily basis. The constantly evolving software landscape makes patch management an important consideration for all IT decision makers, regardless of the organization...

Data Privacy and Trust in the Mobile World

Does your mobile app help or hinder your ability to build trust with users? This paper delves into the results of a study published by the Digital Trust Initiative, which sought to correlate how brands can build trust with consumers in the digital space. Some of the lessons learned include: Most consumers do not...

Controlled Unclassified Information: 5 Steps to a Successful CUI Compliance Plan

By December 6, 2011, all federal agencies must develop a compliance plan for how they will identify and protect Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI). Is your agency ready? In this white paper, Patricia Hammar, executive secretary of the CUI Presidential Task Force, provides expert advice on developing a CUI...

Business Risk and the Midsize Firm: What Can Be Done to Minimize Disruptions?

Lengthy downtime, data losses, and security breaches can harm business results, bringing business to a halt: stopping the flow of orders, reducing sales revenue, and interfering with the supply chain. These downtimes could potentially impact a company's ability to compete with other organizations that were unaffected,...